Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

So To Speak An experience makes its appearance only when it is being said, and unless it is said it is, so to speak, non-existent. Hannah Arendt

Atypical Topical Words are the only Jewels I possess Words are the only Clothes that I wear Words are the only food That sustains my life Words are the only wealth I distribute among people Tukaram The universe is made of stories, not atoms. Muriel Rukeyser

Thoughts To Entertain To make ourselves, to shape a form from various elements – that is the task! The task of a sculptor! Of a productive human being! Nietzsche

Talk On The Hoof For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.                                   Matthew 12:37

Gainsayings The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. Tom Robbins Apologies for the redundant Milgram clip. I was shocked to discover it. JS

Backtalk The great Sufi master Ibn el-Arabi described the essential method of spiritual advancement as an inner conversation with the personalities that seem to exist beyond what you regard as your own limits . . . getting those personalities to tell you what you did not know, or what you could not easily conceive of within your habitual limits. This is commonplace in some therapies, of course. Ted Hughes, The Art of Poetry No. 71 Paris Review

Authentic Marginalia Goethe said that even the writing of plays, dividing the imagination up among different fictional personalities, damaged what he valued—the mind’s wholeness. I wonder what he meant exactly, since he also described his mode of thinking as imagined conversations with various people. Ted Hughes, The Art of Poetry No. 71 Paris Review